Chapter 370 The Missing Seventeen-Year-Old Girl
Seeing Jiang Yuan's gaze, Xiao Xu pursed his lips and explained, "I was thinking, just in case my little sister remembers things from when she was little..."

“Yes,” Jiang Yuan nodded in agreement, “We won’t let any opportunity slip by.”

Xiao Xu lowered his eyes and gave a bitter smile, "Actually, I couldn't find any other way."

Jiang Yuan was silent for a few seconds, then said softly, "If you don't mind, I can mention it during the next live stream?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xu's eyes lit up immediately, and she asked with delight, "Is that alright?"

Jiang Yuan's live stream has such a large audience, maybe Mei Bao is following her too?

“Of course.” Jiang Yuan smiled.

Xiao Xu said gratefully, "Yuan Yuan, then I'll leave it to you! Thank you so much!"

Jiang Yuan raised her eyebrows slightly. "No need to thank me, we're friends."

Xiao Xu looked at her with bright eyes and asked cautiously, "Are we... friends?"

"Isn't it?"

"That's great!" Xiao Xu cheered, unable to express his joy at the moment.

**
Jiang Yuan stayed at Xiao Xu's house for one night and returned to the East Bank Villa the next morning.

The cats and dogs hadn't seen her all day, and as soon as she returned, they all rushed over to cuddle with her.

Blueberry told her, "Mary came looking for you last night, but left after hearing that you weren't coming home."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuan's slender eyebrows furrowed slightly, and a strange sense of unease flashed through her heart.

"Did Mary say anything else?"

"It didn't tell me anything, it just looked like it was in a hurry, and then it flew away quickly."

At the same time, the police station also received a report that a 17-year-old girl had been away from home for more than 24 hours and had been out of contact for 19 hours.

The family members wept bitterly at the police station, kneeling and begging the police to help find their daughter.

Inside the meeting room, Meng Xiaokai's expression was grave. "The girl's name is Zeng Shirui. She's a first-year high school student and a day student..."

“Yesterday afternoon she asked for leave from school under the pretext of feeling unwell, but she did not go home. Her parents only found out that Zeng Shirui was not home when they got home from get off work in the evening.”

The LED screen in the conference room displayed the chat history between Zeng Shirui's mother and her.

Yesterday afternoon, Zeng's mother learned from the homeroom teacher that Zeng Shirui was feeling unwell and had asked to leave school. She immediately made a WeChat video call to her.

Zeng Shirui rejected the call and sent a text message saying, "I'm already on my way home."

When Zeng's mother asked her where she felt unwell, she said her stomach hurt.

At the time, Zeng's mother was preparing for a meeting and assumed that Zeng was feeling unwell due to her period, so she asked her daughter to leave a message when she got home.

When the meeting ended in the evening, Zeng's mother opened WeChat but did not receive a message from her daughter, so she made a video call to her.

This time it wasn't a rejection, but rather no one responded.

Thinking her daughter might be resting, Zeng's mother didn't continue calling and went back to work.

When she got home late at night after get off work, she stood at her daughter's bedroom door and knocked for a long time, but there was no response from inside.

When Zeng's mother pushed open the door and turned on the light, she found the room completely empty.

Mrs. Zeng's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately called her husband.

The two went out to look for Zeng Shirui overnight, but they were like headless flies, not knowing where to look.

After discussing it, the couple decided to call the police.

The page on the LED screen then switched to surveillance footage. In the footage, Zeng Shirui was walking down the road with her schoolbag on her back.

“She looks very unwell,” Chen Ziqi said, frowning. “She kept her head down.”

He Lewei: "You look preoccupied. Is it because of too much academic pressure?"

Meng Xiaokai replied, "I asked Zeng Shirui's parents, and they said that although their child's grades were in the lower middle of the class, they had never put pressure on her or forced her to study." "Then it shouldn't be academic pressure."

The surveillance footage then switched to another location, where Zeng Shirui turned into an alley.

Meng Xiaokai frowned and said, "The surveillance ended here. The technical investigation team is now tracking her phone location and WeChat chat history."

"Is there no other way?" Si Heng asked.

Meng Xiaokai shook his head, "There are no other breakthroughs for the time being."

Si Heng hesitated for a few seconds, then stood up and said, "Let's go to the school and ask."

The group arrived at Zeng Shirui's high school. It was Friday, and the students were beaming with excitement, probably because they were about to have a two-day weekend.

Upon seeing the arrival of the police, everyone showed expressions of curiosity.

Si Heng and his group went directly to the homeroom teacher's office and asked her to call over several students to inquire about the situation.

Zeng Shirui is quiet and introverted, and with her average grades, she is hardly noticeable in class.

The homeroom teacher called over several class officers, and their opinions of Zeng Shirui were all similar, with each saying that they were not familiar with her.

Si Heng and his friends received a call from Jiang Yuan just as they left the school and got into the police car.

"Si Heng, are you at the police station?"

"No, I'm on a mission," Si Heng asked. "What's wrong?"

Sitting in the car, Jiang Yuan said in a serious voice, "Mary found out last night that a girl was acting strangely, as if she was being held captive, but I didn't go home last night and only just found out."

Si Hengmo frowned. "We received a report today that a seventeen-year-old girl has gone missing."

"What a coincidence." Jiang Yuan glanced at Mary in the passenger seat. "I'll have Mary take me there now."

“Okay.” Si Heng said in a deep voice, “Location sharing, we’ll go meet you now.”

“Okay.” Jiang Yuan hung up the phone, enabled location sharing in the WeChat group, and then drove away from Villa No. 8.

Mary sat in the passenger seat, pointing the way with her wings and chattering, "Yuan Yuan, is this really serious?"

"A little," Jiang Yuan said softly. "What were you looking at that girl doing in that abandoned house yesterday?"

Mary: "The girl was sitting in the corner. She looked scared. At first, I thought she was locked up, but the door could be pushed open, but she didn't move. It was strange."

“That’s really strange.” Jiang Yuan frowned, unable to understand why she would do that.

Could this girl be the same girl that Si Heng and the others found?

Half an hour later, Jiang Yuan's car stopped.

Mary told her, "You can't drive in there, Yuan Yuan, you'll have to get out and walk."

"Okay." Jiang Yuan got out of the car and looked around at the surroundings.

This area should be an abandoned factory; she saw several faded signs.

Mary fluttered her wings and circled around her. "Yuan Yuan, are we going in?"

"Wait a little longer," Jiang Yuan said. "Wait for my colleagues to arrive."

She glanced down at her phone screen; Si Heng and the others were very close to her.

Five minutes later, a police car slowly came to a stop.

Si Heng and Meng Xiaokai got out of the car and walked to her side.

Jiang Yuan looked up at Mary and said, "You can lead the way now."

The three people and one bird moved among the factory buildings and finally stopped in a two-story factory building.

After carefully examining the area, Mary said to Jiang Yuan, "Yuan Yuan, the human girl is in here."


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